Cooking utensil.



No. 873,672. PATENTED DEG. 10, 1907,.

W. J. LOUDENSLAGER-& J. E, MORRIS. LQL. MORRIS, nxnou'ron or i, B. MORRIS. nno'p COOKING UTENSIL- APPLIOATION H1131) mu 4, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. LOUDENSLAGER AND JAMES E. MORRIS, OF JAOKSONBURG, WEST VIRGINIA' L. L. MORRIS EXEOUTOR OF SAID JAMES E. MORRIS, DECEASED.

COOKING UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907.

Application filed May 4. 1907. gerial No. 371.837.

' SLAGER and JAMES E. MoRRIs, citizens of the is clearly seen in Fig. 3 at 5.

United States, and residents of J acksonburg, county of WVetzel, and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, which relates to improvements in cooking utensils, the provision of a detachable cover and a novel spout or lip.

To this end the invention consists in the formation and combination of parts substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, Figure l represents in plan an ordinary skillet, to which has been applied the features of this invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, a part being broken away for the purpose of better illustrating theinvention; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the portion of the skillet, on which the spout is formed.

IVhile the invention is applicable to cooking utensils of various sorts and for various uses, it is especially applicable to a skillet or frying pan, and the drawings show this application of the invention. Therein 3 indicates the body of the skillet and 4 its handle. These parts are of the found on the market. today. To facilitate the pouring out of the contents of the skillet, the edge of the spout is prolonged and turned downward and preferably slightly inward, as This recurved v lip formed upon the spout prevents grease from running down the side of the skillet onto the stove.

In using a skillet, particularly for frying, it is necessary to cover it, and a removable cover, such as must be deposited on the table or some other place, while stirring, the contents of the skillet, soils that upon which it is deposited. This invention obviates this difliculty by providing a novel hinge for the cover 11, such that the cover may be turned back and the contents of the skillet inspected or manipulated as desired. The hinge is also so constructed that the cover may be readily removed when its use is not required and also ends is has for its object .The ends of the forations;

ordinary type to be for washing the utensil. One form, in which this hinge may be constructed, is illustrated. A clip,

preferably riveted to the base of the handle 4.

as 6, having up-turned perforated A stout spring-metal wire, preferably bent into U-shape, as seen at 7,'is secured to the staple 8, whosev ends may pass through a slit in the cover and be bent away fromone another on the underside of the cover, as indicated in Fig. 2 A keeper, as 9 is placed over the free ends of the wire 7 and secured to the cover in any suitable manner, as by rivets. wire 7 are bent outwardly and form the hinge pintles for insertion in the perforations on the ends of clip 6. To attach the cover to the skillet, the ends of the wire 7 are pressed towards one another into the position indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 1, and the curved ends thereof inserted in-the perforations of clip 6. The cover is readily removed by again pressing these ends of the wire 7 together and withdrawing them from said per- The' handle of the cover, indicated at 10, is preferably so placed and made of such height thatwhen the cover is turned back, said handle will rest upon the handle 4 of the skillet and maintain the cover in substantially the position indicated in Fig. 2. This construction provides for the draining of such liquid as there may be upon the underside of the cover, back into the skillet.

The invention claimed is 2* The combination with a skillet having a projecting handle, of a clip provided with perforated up-turned ends secured to the base of the handle, and a cover having secured thereon a U-shaped spring metal wire having outwardly turned ends adapted tobe' inserted into and withdrawn from the perforations in said clip, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM J. LOUDENSLAGER.

JAMES E. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

I. W. JOHNSTON, H. R. JOHNSTON. 

